I Speak For The Colored Women Of

Each Is Under The Most Sacred Obligation Not To Squander The Material Committed To Him, Not To Sap His Strength In Folly And Vice, And To See At The Least That He Delivers A Product Worthy The Labor And Cost Which Have Been Expended On Him.

... Religion (ought To Be If It Isn't) A Great Deal More Than Mere Gratification Of The Instinct For Worship Linked With The Straight-teaching Of Irreproachable Credos. Religion Must Be Life Made True; And Life Is Action, Growth, Development--begun Now And Ending Never.

The Colored Woman Of To-day Occupies, One May Say, A Unique Position In This Country. In A Period Of Itself Transitional And Unsettled, Her Status Seems One Of The Least Ascertainable And Definitive Of All The Forces Which Make For Our Civilization. She Is Confronted By Both A Woman Question And A Race Problem.

I Constantly Felt (as I Suppose Many An Ambitious Girl Has Felt) A Thumping From Within Unanswered By Any Beckoning From Without.

Life Must Be Something More Than Dilettante Speculation.